Angle v. Chicago St P M O Ry Co’s Empirical Analysis
Citation profile
10 federal appellate · 8 district · 115 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 159 later decisions (3 by the Supreme Court) — most recently June 2020 · most notably Chaves v. Johnson (1985), Knickerbocker Ice Co. v. Gardiner Dairy Co. (1908)
10 federal appellate · 8 district · 115 state decisions — followed in 37 states
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Walker v. Cronin · Rice v. . Manley · Benton v. Pratt · Haskins v. Royster · Jones v. . Stanly
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 159 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been repeatedly held that, if one maliciously interferes in a contract between two parties, and induces one of them to break that contract to the injury of the other, the party injured can maintain an action against the wrongdoer.””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The rule upon which this decision rests has been followed in many cases, and has become a settled rule of our jurisprudence. The rule, briefly stated, is that whenever an act of the legislature is challenged in court the inquiry is limited to the question of power, and does not extend to the matter of expediency, the motives of the legislators, or the reasons which were spread before them to induce the passage of the act. This principle rests upon the independence of the legislature as one of the co-ordinate departments of the government. It would not be seemly for either of the three departments to be instituting an inquiry as to whether another acted wisely, intelligently, or corruptly. * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Equity recognizes a right that that property should be applied in the payment for that work. The wrongdoing of the defendant, the Omaha Company, has wrested the title to this property from the Portage Company and transferred it to itself.. It has become, therefore, a trustee ex maleficio in respect to the property.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.